Oscillation ::: Line-up complete + tickets sales open // March news
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Festival 27 April – 30 April Oscillation ::: o tempo
Some big Oscillation news today ::: the line-up of our yearly sonic celebrations is now complete, as is the biggest part of the workshop program accompanying them (more info coming soon). Be sure to discover both on our newly launched website, designed by the great Studio Serruys Verdoodt. And, not unimportantly: tickets (day tickets, festival passes and workshop places) are also available from now on – the time is ripe!
Post-residency presentation 11 March – 18h-19h – free Victor Guaita Igual & Lukas De Clerck & Suzan Peeters & Andrés Navarro García The group presents an un-scored collaborative composition, keeping an spontaneous dynamic while still developing ideas. There is a certain fragility about working in a quartet. Already the timbers of the instruments: viola, accordion, percussion, organ/aulos/pipes; are constantly on and off balance, at times merging together in tones and overtones, other times being distinctively four independent voices. And also the fact of composing collaboratively, blurring the roles of composer/interpreter into the collective. [read more]
Concert 12 March – 15h – 16h10 – @ Huis van de Culturen / La Maison des Cultures Farida Amadou and workshop participants (in the frame of Musikaa/Klarafestival) A Concert with participants of the Improvisation Workshop, lead by Farida Amadou. With: Luana Santos, Marius Tarakdjioglou, Liévine Hubert, Eric Mersch, Michele Giovannini, Julie Paraire, Florence Borgers, Sara Di Costanzo, Suzan Peeters. [read more]
Second Sundays #38 12 March – 17h (doors 16h30) – free Chris Evans In March, it will be the turn of Chris Evans, an artist, musician and editor based in Brussels. His work often evolves through conversation with people from diverse walks of life, selected in relation to their public life or symbolic role. Sculptures, letters, drawings, film scripts and unwieldy social situations created as a result of this, are indexes of a larger structure through which Evans deliberately confuses the roles of artist and patron, author and muse. [read more]
Post-residency listening session 22 March – 18h – 19h – free Jambes Jambes presents Quille, episode 1: An experimental podcast recorded with previous residents at Q-O2, around the themes of sound’s recent history and the documentation of certain ephemeral practices, impermanent objects or working paths. The interviews were recorded in a spontaneous and unstructured way – while walking around Brussels, cooking, throwing a hydrophone into the canal, having lunch, sitting in the car, or recording birds in the early hours of the Anatolian morning.
With contributions by: Sajira Xhrs Galaretta, Selu Herraiz, Amber Meulenijzer, Sarah van Lamsweerde, Esther Mugambi & Raoul Carrer and a jingle featuring Gherasim Luca. [more info]
Concert 8 April – 21h – 10€ / free for -18 – Jérôme Noetinger, Nicolas Field, Thomas Florin, Fritz Welch & Nate Wooley – Re-Ghoster Re-Ghoster grew out of a chance encounter between Anglo-Swiss percussionist Nicolas Field, Italian tape & electronics wizard Valerio Tricoli and Swiss pianist Thomas Florin in Geneva in 2018. They quickly discovered a like-minded longing to experiment and distort sound textures in new ways, to explore compositional concepts by using improvisation and the impulse of the moment. They decided to let their strong personalities clash. Re-Ghoster was born and as a trio, they released a first album – ‘Or Not All’ – in 2019.
Event 17 May – 18h – 22h – free upon reservation – @STUK – Studio Manhattan Showcase Emerging Sound 2023 — Diana Duta, Stijn Wybouw, Tom Malmendier & Emilie Skrijelj, Florence Cats Each year, STUK, Q-O2, Musica & C-TAKT present a sample of new sound art in Belgium. Four promising sound artists were selected and put in the spotlights: Diana Duta, Stijn Wybouw, Florence Cats and Tom Malmendier & Emilie Skrijelj. The Showcase will take place on Wednesday 17 May 2023 at the iconic Manhattan nightclub and television studio on the canal in Leuven. [More info]
New book Elena Biserna: Going Out – Walking, Listening, Soundmaking Going Out explores the relationship between walking, listening, and soundmaking in the arts – from the first soundwalks and itinerant performances in the 1960s to today’s manifold ambulatory projects. The book consists of an extensive essay by Elena Biserna followed by an anthology of 51 historical and contemporary contributions in the form of documentation, essays, interviews, manifestos, scores, narratives and reflections.
Going Out is going on tour! Be sure not to miss Elena when you are around:
March 31 – Marseille: Sonic Protest ailleurs @ Ateliers Jeanne Barret, April 3 – Amsterdam: Talk/walk @ WARP-Walking as Research Practice, University of Amsterdam April 4 – The Haghe: Talk @ The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) May 11 – Berlin: Book Launch @ Errant Sound May 13 – Berlin: workshop Walking from Scores
listen QOOOOOOOOOO2 @ LYL Radio: Elena Biserna Listen back to our latest emission on LYL Radio: an Interview with Elena Biserna, editor of our book Going Out – Walking, Listening, Soundmaking, accompanied by recordings of concerts by BNA-BBOT and David Helbich, during the book launch at our HQ.: